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An "obsessively readable" mystery from the New York Times-bestselling author of Dark Corners about a century-old diary that holds clues to a murder (The Sunday Telegraph). Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two little boys, she feels like a stranger in a strange land. And it doesn't help that her husband is constantly away on business. Fortunately, she finds solace in her diary--and she continues to do so until 1967. Decades later, her granddaughter, Ann, finds the journal, and it becomes a literary sensation, offering an intimate view of Edwardian life. But it also appears to hold the key to an unsolved murder and the disappearance of a child. A modern masterpiece by the Edgar Award-winning author of the Inspector Wexford Mysteries, and an excellent choice for readers of P. D. James, Ian Rankin, or Scott Turow, Asta's Book is at once a crime story, a historical novel, and a psychological portrait told through the diary itself and through Ann, who is bent on unlocking the journal's excised mystery. … (plus d'informations)
A rather long and drawn-out tale of two generations of women trying to solve a question of identity. I usually get quite engaged in Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine's stories, but she let this one ramble, ignored an obvious avenue of investigation, and included too many false leads for my taste. I did want to know who the killer was, and whether Swanny was adopted or not, but it just took too long to get there. A fair bit of backstory and repetitious explication could have been cut without hurting a thing. "Suspenseful" is not an adjective I'd use for this one. ( )
Un libro inaspettato e appassionante, un romanzo del tutto diverso dai romanzi gialli per i quali conoscevo finora la Rendell. Misteri di famiglia con colpi di scena su colpi di scena
I didn't particularly like Anna but it was an interesting story although I had some trouble following the point of telling the Roper tale in the middle = it eventually all made some sense, but was a bit of a distraction. ( )
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Meine Grosseltern, Anna Larsson und Mads Kruse, zum Gedächtnis
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When I went out this morning a woman asked me if there were polar bears in the streets of Copenhagen.
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There in her strong forward-sloping hand go her pain and loss and joy, those profound emotions set down on a page destined for no one's eyes but her own, never to be known and never to be read.
An "obsessively readable" mystery from the New York Times-bestselling author of Dark Corners about a century-old diary that holds clues to a murder (The Sunday Telegraph). Asta Westerby is lonely. In 1905, shortly after coming to East London from Denmark with her husband and their two little boys, she feels like a stranger in a strange land. And it doesn't help that her husband is constantly away on business. Fortunately, she finds solace in her diary--and she continues to do so until 1967. Decades later, her granddaughter, Ann, finds the journal, and it becomes a literary sensation, offering an intimate view of Edwardian life. But it also appears to hold the key to an unsolved murder and the disappearance of a child. A modern masterpiece by the Edgar Award-winning author of the Inspector Wexford Mysteries, and an excellent choice for readers of P. D. James, Ian Rankin, or Scott Turow, Asta's Book is at once a crime story, a historical novel, and a psychological portrait told through the diary itself and through Ann, who is bent on unlocking the journal's excised mystery.
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